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English

Etymology

Borrowed from German Schnaps.

Alternative forms

• schnaps

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?n?ps/, /?næps/

• Rhymes: -æps

Noun

schnapps (usually uncountable, plural schnappses)

1. (uncountable) A type of distilled alcoholic beverage, often with a herbal or fruit flavoring, typically drunk neat as apéritif or digestif.
2. (countable) A serving of this beverage.

Translations

See also

Portuguese

Noun

schnapps m (plural schnapps)

1. Alternative spelling of schnaps

English

Etymology 1

Abbreviation of geneva, alteration of Dutch genever (“juniper”) from Old French genevre (French genièvre), from Latin i?niperus (“juniper”). Hence gin rummy (first attested 1941).

Pronunciation

• enPR: j?n, IPA^(key): /d??n/
• Rhymes: -?n
• Homophone: djinn

Noun

gin (countable and uncountable, plural gins)

1. A colourless non-aged alcoholic liquor made by distilling fermented grains such as barley, corn, oats or rye with juniper berries; the base for many cocktails.
2. (uncountable) Gin rummy.
3. (poker) Drawing the best card or combination of cards.

Derived terms

• bathtub gin
• gin joint
• gin pennant
• sloe gin

Related terms

• genever
• juniper

Translations

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “gin”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
• gin in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Etymology 2

Aphetism of Old French engin (“engine”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: j?n, IPA^(key): /d??n/
• Rhymes: -?n
• Homophone: djinn

Noun

gin (plural gins)

1. (obsolete) A trick; a device or instrument.
2. (obsolete) Contrivance; artifice; a trap; a snare.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)
3. A snare or trap for game.
4. A machine for raising or moving heavy objects, consisting of a tripod formed of poles united at the top, with a windlass, pulleys, ropes, etc.
5. (mining) A hoisting drum, usually vertical; a whim.
6. A pile driver.
7. A windpump.
8. A cotton gin.
9. An instrument of torture worked with screws.

Translations

Related terms

• (cotton gin): ginner, ginnery

Verb

gin (third-person singular simple present gins, present participle ginning, simple past and past participle ginned)

1. (transitive) To remove the seeds from cotton with a cotton gin.
2. (transitive) To trap something in a gin.

Derived terms

• gin up

Descendants

• ? Italian: ginnare

Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English ginnen (“to begin”), contraction of beginnen, from Old English beginnan, from Proto-Germanic *biginnan?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??n/

Verb

gin (third-person singular simple present gins, present participle ginning, simple past gan, past participle gun)

1. (archaic) To begin.

Etymology 4

Borrowed from Dharug dyin (“woman”), but having acquired a derogatory tone.

Pronunciation

• enPR: j?n, IPA^(key): /d??n/
• Rhymes: -?n
• Homophone: djinn

Noun

gin (plural gins)

1. (Australia, now considered offensive) An Aboriginal woman.
   • 1869, Thomas Livingstone Mitchell, Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 1, page 273,

     His next shot was discharged amongst the mob, and most unfortunately wounded the gin already mentioned ; who, with a child fastened to her back, slid down the bank, and lay, apparently dying, with her legs in the water.

   • 1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter XXI, [1]

     From my position I could see the gins pointing back, and as the men turned they looked for a moment and then made a wild rush for the entrance.

   • 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, D. Appleton-Century, 1943, Chapter XXI, p. 353, [2]

     How they must have laughed about the strutting of her whose mother was a wanton and aunt a gin!

   • 1988, Tom Cole, Hell West and Crooked, Angus & Robertson, 1995, p.179,

     Dad said Shoesmith and Thompson had made one error that cost them their lives by letting the gins into the camp, and the blacks speared them all.

   • 2008, Bill Marsh, Jack Goldsmith, Goldie: Adventures in a Vanishing Australia, unnumbered page,

     But there was this gin there, see, what they called a kitchen girl.

Related terms

• blackgin

Synonyms

• lubra

Derived terms

References

Etymology 5

Cognate to Scots gin (“if”): perhaps from gi(v)en, or a compound in which the first element is from Old English ?if (English if) and the second is cognate to English an (“if”) (compare iffen), or perhaps from again.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??n/

Conjunction

gin

1. (chiefly Southern US, Appalachia, Scotland) If.

References

Anagrams

• -ing, -ïng, GNI, IGN, NGI, ing, nig

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English gin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?in/
• Homophones: djinn, jean

Noun

gin m (plural gins)

1. gin

Further reading

• “gin” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish gainithir (“is born”), from Proto-Celtic *ganyetor (compare Welsh geni (“be born, bear”)) from Proto-Indo-European *?enh?- (compare English kin, Latin gign? (“beget, bear”), Ancient Greek ???????? (gígnomai, “become”), Sanskrit ???? (janati, “beget”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???n?/

Noun

gin f (genitive singular gine, nominative plural ginte)

1. begetting, birth
2. fetus
3. offspring, child, person
4. generating source

Declension

Derived terms

• aonghin
• athghin f (“counterpart”)

Verb

gin (present analytic gineann, future analytic ginfidh, verbal noun giniúint, past participle ginte)

1. 1. give birth to (used only in the autonomous form)
   2. germinate, sprout; spring forth; originate
2. 1. beget, procreate
   2. generate, produce

Conjugation

Derived terms

• athghin (“regenerate”, verb)

Mutation

References

• "gin" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “gainithir”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Janday

Noun

gin

1. woman, girl

Further reading

• John Gladstone Steele, Aboriginal Pathways: in Southeast Queensland and the Richmond River

Japanese

Romanization

gin

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Romanian

Etymology

From English gin.

Noun

gin n (plural ginuri)

1. gin

Declension

Scots

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??n/

Etymology 1

Cognate to dialectal English gin (“if”), which see for more.

Conjunction

gin

1. if (conditional; subjunctive)

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Jamieson to this entry?)

   • 1778, Alexander Ross, Fortunate Shepherdess, page 124:

     Then says the squire,

     Gin that be all your fear,

     She sanna want a man, for want of gear.

     A thousand pounds a year, well burthen free,

     I mak her sure of, gin she'll gang with me.

Etymology 2

From Old English [Term?].

Preposition

gin

1. Against; nearby; towards.

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish gainithir (“is born”), from Proto-Celtic *ganyetor (compare Welsh geni (“be born, bear”)) from Proto-Indo-European *?enh?- (compare English kin, Latin gign? (“beget, bear”), Ancient Greek ???????? (gígnomai, “become”), Sanskrit ???? (janati, “beget”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??in/

Verb

gin (past ghin, future ginidh, verbal noun gintinn, past participle ginte)

1. beget, produce, father
2. create, engender
3. procreate, reproduce
4. breed
5. (computing) generate

Derived terms

• ath-ghin

Mutation

References

• “gin” in Edward Dwelly, Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic–English Dictionary, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, 1911, ?ISBN.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “gainithir”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Spanish

Noun

gin m (plural gines)

1. gin

   Synonym: ginebra

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English gin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /j?n/ or IPA^(key): /d??n/

Noun

gin n

1. gin (liquor)

Anagrams

• -ing, Ing

Wiradhuri

Noun

gin

1. Alternative spelling of geen